7Horse's Song Reviews

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About Us:
7Horse began as a hypothetical: What
if, longtime band mates Joie Calio and
Phil Leavitt thought, we bury our
musical past and see if we can
discover rock ’n’ roll’s Ground Zero?
That question having been explored in
bold fashion on their 2011 debut “Let
the 7Horse Run,” the blues duo returns
with an even deeper sense of purpose
on the follow-up, “Songs for a Voodoo
Wedding” (due June 10). The larger
question: What if the mission were not
to locate rock ’n’ roll’s chewy
center, but to find and channel their
own personal identities?
“I’m a grown man with wants and needs
and temptations and faults, and I’m
not gonna be afraid to write about any
of it,” says Leavitt, the
singer/drummer whose sometimes-bawdy,
always-honest narratives are filtered
through an array of vintage
microphones. “Everybody now wants to
tell you how sensitive they are.
Enough of that. Where’s the attitude?
Where’s the swagger? If we can be a
two-man Rolling Stones, I say we go
for it.”
Adds Calio, who spent much of his
career as a bassist before refining
the finger-picking and slide skills
asked of a blues guitarist: “I feel
like on a base level this is what I’m
all about as a human being. I feel
like we’ve found a renewable source of
energy.”
It’s all the more remarkable
considering 7Horse started as a trial
balloon, with Calio and Leavitt
exchanging riffs, lyrics and song
sketches via iPhone from their homes
in Seattle and Los Angeles,
respectively. Those ideas in hand, the
pair blew through studio sessions that
saw them arrange, refine and record
one song per day. The results coursed
with rawness and immediacy, and it’s a
process they replicated in making
“Songs for a Voodoo Wedding.”
Part of what informed the sophomore
album, however, was the “quality” time
Calio and Leavitt spent together in
the interim. Though accustomed to
touring in the relative luxury of a
bus for much of their careers, the
pair piled into a van to tour the U.S.
behind their first record. On the
vehicle’s stereo for most of the slog:
The masters, such as Johnny Cash,
Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Merle
Haggard, along with early blues
legends such as Little Walter.
“The more country we listened to, the
more it percolated in me,” Calio says.
“On the first record we were just
creating the essence of the band right
there in the studio and we had no well
to go to. Now we have a really good
idea of what we want to tap into.”
It was during the time between albums
that 7Horse received the phone call
that would change their lives — at
least, the life of their new project.
It was from a representative of
director Martin Scorsese, saying that
the single “Meth Lab Zoso Sticker” was
being considered for use in the film
“The Wolf of Wall Street.”
“Every night we were out playing like
it was our last show, lugging our
gear, putting our nose to the
grindstone,” Calio says. “The movie
was not a sure thing, but we weren’t
going to sit around waiting for the
phone to ring. We kept looking
forward.”
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Check out this video about the song "Meth Lab Zoso
Sticker" and the story behind the song's use in
the movie "The Wolf Of Wall Street"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lDJV23xvTs

Video posted

Check out the video for Low Fuel Drug Run....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5GgzGcga14

7Horse on the streets of
Boston!

7Horse on the streets of Boston....
http://youtu.be/ehXvT9raSuw

dada 20th Tour VIP package
now on sale!

Pull back the curtain and step inside... dada VIP
package now available! Check out the link below
to get details on purchasing the dada VIP package
for the upcoming 20th anniversary tour. It
contains all sorts of goodies and direct access to
the band. Also, we posted up a vintage video of
dada performing "Dizz Knee Land" live at tower
records in 1993! Not only can you see it on the
page, you can also download a free mp3 or wav file
of the track on the video. So go watch the video,
download the mp3 and pick up a vip package to go
with your show tickets!
http://www.dadatheband.com/vip

another review...

Another review for the new album:
http://thecelebritycafe.com/reviews/2014/05/7horse
-releases-songs-voodoo-wedding

The guys over at Slacker
Radio added Flying High
(With No ID) to their New
Indie First and Adult
Alternative channels! Be
sure to check out them
out and listen to some
music:
http://www.slacker.com/#s
ong/27631190/30770340/390
80997

7Horse has a song in the
running....please vote!
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Hey U! Please Vote for
your top 5 picks from
these great artists and
songs played last Sunday
on Ska Parade at KUKQ
Phoenix! The top 5 will
be played this Sunday
night!
Vote now (takes 2
seconds)! Thanks in
advance!
SKA PARADE (based in OC,
CA) airs Sundays 9p-11p
Pacific on KUKQ.com!
http://poll.fm/4smgn

Calling all 7Horse
fans... do you want to be
in our next music video?
Now is your chance! We
will be filming our next
music video this coming
Monday, May 12th. If you
will be in the Los
Angeles, CA area when we
do you are invited to
come down and be a part
of it! For more
info/details email
7horsemusic@gmail.com